School Text Books

OnE oO 'i)he moj-jib inipoi. ta.n.t juesl'i.ia sevec sutmitted at BohOjoC' eleetfon -n-LM T?. vateil oud uexb Mond&y. Am.ong tlhie wttenv b'ills pased by tlie last legtelature w:as oae gb'tor-? 'tbe Sítete Ito.a''."d oí Educía tikun witlhj thiree Tppio'intceB O'f tte g-oiv-ernor, -Mie dangecioiiis pï'l'viieges cf seloc.timg all fflufi schi Höi bioolw of all t.lic chUdretii in MV&igan iior the next five years. It ■s soId'Oün sudh. opea clhM,nces foif jolibery on a large Bcale are .pfered, farr Jh pub]i-;liei's o: tlr.' -ivorst books who o.;fe tlhiö m,ost to tte commlseloraers ar; l'ikcly tD t3 faofed, amd our sp3eBJcBd school eysteira, will ■uitetf". Umdeir the alluring title. 04 uniform text books, it proposes to ehove th.'noaig'h the brains of Amo. Arbor chilctren the same books euibabie for teaching the Huns and Scandinavians dl ttoo upper penias'Uilia' mines. These taoks will le behíkid the times, ptoctly prinibed a.nl shlabbily bomnd, s tlney are In places where fhis wnetc'hied syetem haa been imposed ob fhie peopje. The only wa.y t 'do is' to ,vobe to astaAn toe presen met'horl1, JJOT.that other al'toraiatiTe of free text books Is wnrse even thiam th,e unilBoiran text took bill, beoauee tjtus people of Ama Airbor are mat yöt ready to put !n ■thi?i: ohiMirön1 bands crreiasy books used the years bejore by ecnofuiXms, sio"e-eyed, dipht'herefcic chüdreta Iroim aome ether family. Nedfeher to they want to pi1 on, [OUT or fivei tlhousnnd (jollars to tteir tax rollst, .to glve iree 1cotes to cMldnen conning jtere Jrom Ohfeago, Os'hbosh or even Katcuma2(c0'. Aun Arbor Is Ijlad to h:a' fore'lOn studants oam,e Ivsre, and gives them a böbter edmoatiïn than they woüld get nnywiicTe, (else they would uio cdm.e in such large numbers), ti ut -we db mot feel that we hould glive them. ree text bo'cflis, an(y more t ban {ree gihoes or Iree baard. TVoe text tooto are a aelusuoin, It ils an. offiect to1 ?et soBuetihiing foir ruothlng. They are not :ree, ior soane ptne hios Üy pay San .íSieau aad that ao'ui'oone ís tlhe taxpayer w:lno' is geinig tb ba astoed tnexti .Monday to put tihat tcseless bardan oía huiïserf.